to a "maker-up" who takes an inventory.
Next day he assorts the packages of a group in a till similar to those
already described, except that it is laid flat upon a low counter. Then
he takes the contents of a box, ascertains, by examining the upper note
of each package, that the money is all the issue of a single bank, and
writes in ink upon a blank label the title of the bank, the amount of
each denomination, and the total of all, signs and dates this, and
straps it upon the bundle. Having emptied all the boxes of his till in
this manner, he prepares a list of the amount of each bank's money made
up, and verifies his work by comparing the footing with the total
charged to him on the previous evening. This list is delivered to the
bookkeepers, and upon it the accounts of the agency are based. From
motives of saving in express charges, when the total of a bank's
currency in the till is less than five hundred dollars, the money is not
made up, but thrown aside as "odds," together with all excess over even
thousands of dollars, when such excess is less than five hundred. These
"odds" are returned, after account, to the vault. The work of making up
employs from two to four persons constantly. Absolute correctness is of
high importance, and great painstaking is required. Even a moment's
relaxation of attention is likely to produce an error which, if not
discovered, would involve the misplacement of hundreds or thousands of
dollars. Fortunately, the system of checks and proofs is so thorough
that all errors are discovered unfailingly, and the consequences
confined to the agency. The different colored straps noticed in use for
packages are but one feature of a general scheme by which currency in
the office is made to indicate, at a glance, its description, proper
place, and future course. The possibility of error or confusion in large
amounts is thus reduced to the last degree. And minute precautions will
hardly be deemed superfluous, when it is considered that all the
processes described in this article are going on simultaneously every
day at the heaped-up tills and counters.

On leaving the hands of the maker-up, the money is taken to the
proving-room. Here the bundles are distributed among a force of women,
who recount all the notes for the purpose of verifying the amount, the
description, and the assortment. If, among the notes of a bank, is found
one of another, the estray is exchanged, through the superintendent of
ass